Maximum WLC support on WCS

[tsawchuk]

Hello,

Just a quick question to verify that the maximum number of WLCs a single WCS can support is 50.

What one do if you had 55 individual WLCs in seperate buildings you wanted to manage throughtout a School Division for example?

We are also looking at proposing deploying the FLEX 7500 controller to solve the problem of multiple 5508s.

Thanks for any insight.

Terry

[Leo Laohoo]

We are also looking at proposing deploying the FLEX 7500 controller to solve the problem of multiple 5508s.

The new 7500 WLC will do nothing BUT H-REAP.

[Dave Anthony David]

I believed he is referring to the number of Access Points supported by FLEX 7500 WLCs which is up to 2000 APs compared to that 500 APs of 5508 WLCs.

[tsawchuk]

Just to give some clarification on my original question.

We are looking at the possibility of deploying 55 5508 controllers throughout a school division.

Will a single WCS support that many controllers at the Board Office to manage all these controllers.

Thanks,

Terry

[Nicolas Darchis · Accepted solution]

Release notes are among the most useful documents of a product 🙂

Hardware Requirements for Server

Cisco WCS can be run on a workstation or server, and access points can be distributed unevenly across controllers.

•High-end  server—Supports up to 3,000 Cisco Aironet lightweight access points,  1,250 standalone access points, and 750 Cisco wireless LAN controllers.

–3.16-GHz Intel Xeon Quad processor.

–8-GB RAM.

–200 GB minimum free disk space is needed on your hard drive.

I confirm that unless you have H-REAP only on your APs, the 5508/Wism2 and their 500 APs support are the max you can get per WLC.

Cheers,

Nicolas